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Decision for New Climate Finance Goal at COP29 Will Mark the Future of Climate Justice and Equity in the Multilateral Climate Regime

31. October 2024 |

COP29 in Baku will decide the future of global climate finance. As developing nations demand $1 trillion in annual support, tensions rise over who should contribute and how funds are allocated. Will this summit deliver on the promise of climate... more
ArticleInternational climate finance / Implementation of climate finance

Climate finance for charcoal production in Brazil is fueling conflicts with communities

25. May 2020 |

A new case study by the Global Forest Coalition and FASE (Federação de Órgãos para Assistência Social e Educacional) on the Global Environment Facility-funded “Sustainable Iron and Steel Production” project reveals how millions in public climate finance is fueling a... more
ArticleImplementation of climate finance

Is climate finance for cookstove and charcoal projects helping communities, forests or the climate?

27. November 2019 |

International climate and forest-related finance has always been one of the stickiest issues in multilateral efforts to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change, and the urgency of action means that it must be properly monitored and scrutinized.... more
Article / Multilateral funds and initiatives

“Back to the Future” for GCF After Recent Bahrain Board Meeting

21. November 2018 |

It’s “back to the future” for the Green Climate Fund (GCF) after its most recent 21st Board meeting in Bahrain in October.  After the disastrous last meeting in early July, where even passing the agenda proved to be an almost... more
Article / Multilateral funds and initiatives

After the crisis at the GCF’s 20th meeting, new momentum is needed

30. August 2018 |

The Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) met at its headquarters in South Korea from 1 to 4 July 2018. The Fund’s 20th meeting will surely be recorded as one of its most difficult. It remains to be seen... more
Article / Multilateral funds and initiatives

Green Climate Fund: three key tasks for 2018

21. February 2018 |

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has made significant progress in terms of supporting low-carbon and climate resilient development in developing countries. Yet the Fund still has to work on some of the gaps and challenges that have manifested throughout the... more
ArticleImplementation of climate finance

Waste, Cement and Climate Change: the case of India

9. October 2017 |

In an earlier article published in October 2016 we looked at the growing trend towards using waste as replacement of fossil fuels in cement production, a practice that has been supported and encouraged by the GIZ with dedicated climate finance... more
ArticleGerman climate finance / Loss and Damage

Insuring against climate change

27. September 2017 |

Poor countries hit by droughts, hurricanes or floods sometimes need years to recover economically. Climate risk insurance schemes are designed to alleviate this situation and are being promoted vigorously by German climate finance measures. The only catch: not everyone can... more
Article / International climate finance / Pledges & Commitments / Private climate finance / Transparency

US$ 100 billion climate finance roadmap leaves room for improvement

1. November 2016 |

Just in time for the next UN climate change conference COP22 in Morocco, developed countries have now, finally, presented their climate finance roadmap how they project to meet their promise to ramp up climate finance to US$ 100 billion a... more
ArticleImplementation of climate finance / German climate finance

Funding Unsustainable Solutions: German Climate Finance to the Waste Sector in the Global South

26. October 2016 |

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from the GAIA network around the world have flagged that German Development Cooperation, through GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung), has been involved in proposals for the waste sector that encourage the least environmentally friendly... more
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Qualitative aspects of German climate finance: Participation, gender and human rights

15. December 2014 |

In climate finance, the volume of available financial resources and their regional and sectoral distribution are not the only things that count. Climate finance must also comply to qualitative criteria – particularly with regard to positive impacts on the climate,... more
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Database on German Climate Finance

27. November 2014 |

The German contribtution to international climate finance is a rapidly growing part of the official development cooperation (ODA). Germany is financing mitigation, adaptation and REDD+ projects and programmes in developing countries and countries in transition. These project contribute to Germany’s... more
ArticleMultilateral funds and initiatives

Pledging conference in Berlin: an important first step for the Green Climate Fund (GCF)

26. November 2014 |

The pledging conference of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), which took place in Berlin on November 20th 2014, came up with $9.3 billion for the period of 2015-2018. With this result the unofficial mark of $10 billion was missed. Nevertheless... more
ArticleMultilateral funds and initiatives

Pressure on GCF Board increases after Bali meeting makes few decisions

26. March 2014 |

— After only a handful of decisions at the last GCF Board meeting in Bali, the first one lead by the new German and Philippine co-chairs, the pressure on 24 Board members increases to deliver at the Board’s all important... more
ArticleInternational climate finance

Warsaw Climate Change Conference Brings Modest Progress in Climate Finance but Leaves Important Questions Unanswered

27. January 2014 |

The annual international climate change summit took place in the Polish capital, Warsaw, in November last year. As in the previous year, the issue of international climate finance attracted lengthy and controversial debate, remaining unresolved until the last minute. In... more
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Bilateral cooperation in climate finance

28. November 2011 |

German funding for international climate finance is largely implemented as climate-relevant projects and programs of the bilateral development cooperation (DC) of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) through the implementing agencies of development cooperation. Its bilateral... more
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